Shona Auerbach

Shona Auerbach is a British film director and cinematographer.

She studied film at Manchester University and cinematography at Leeds before completing her Master of Arts at the Polish National Film School in Łódź.

[1] Her first directorial effort was the 1996 short subject Seven, which won her awards from the Munich International Festival of Film Schools, the Montecatini Filmvideo International Short Film Festival in Spain, and the Capalbio Cinema International Short Film Festival in Italy.

She spent the next several years directing commercials while at the same time preparing her debut feature film, Dear Frankie, which was shown at numerous film festivals in 2004 and was released commercially in early 2005.

Auerbach is married to cinematographer Graeme Dunn.